AGENTS OF HOPE

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” - Helen Keller

From Parade magazine comes the story of self-made millionaire Eugene Land, who greatly changed the lives of a sixth-grade class in East Harlem. Mr. Lang had been asked to speak to a class of 59 sixth-graders. What could he say to inspire these students, most of whom would drop out of school? He wondered how he could get these predominantly black and Puerto Rican children even to look at him. Scrapping his notes, he decided to speak to them from his heart. "Stay in school," he admonished, "and I'll help pay the college tuition for every one of you." At that moment the lives of these students changed. For the first time they had hope. Said one student, "I had something to look forward to something waiting for me. It was a golden feeling." Nearly 90 percent of that class went on to graduate from high school.

Desmond Tutu said, “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” As a drink of cold water is to the parched throat of a

wanderer in the desert, so is hope to the soul of a hopeless man: there is no substitute. Beyond being hopeful for ourselves or our difficult situations, there’s also need to be a source of hope to others less fortunate. Hope is almost so scarce today because everyone needs it, but rarely finding it. We are God’s agent of hope: Christ in us.

Beloved, hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all...As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be strength. You are an agent of God’s hope on the earth – you cannot be hopeless. For what you carry, the world around you has something to look forward to…they’re able to see that there’s something great waiting for them at the end of their tunnel. Don’t hide that hope, expose and spread it.

WISDOM NUGGET: Psalms 39:7

“And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.” - KJV

Let us pray: Father, make me an agent of your hope in my generation, in Jesus name.

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